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["Mark A. Hershberger" <mah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun 30 Sep 2012 04:33:42 AM EDT, Pierre van Male wrote:
>   * A CMS that allows to share various documents (field trip reports,
>     minutes of meeting, field assessment, HR memo, scanned documents,
>     etc.) between offices with the control of the access rights, the
>     replication/archiving according to the needs and the search
>     feature (index file shared on every Ubuntu PCs).

> All this is not that simple to design and configure (especially the
> CMS), but it is technically feasible.

I just wanted to address this one issue with an example of how I was
able to provide Uganda's Ministry of Health with an open source system
(KnowledgeTree) document storage and retrieval system while working with
IntraHealth International (a US-based NGO).

Given the relative resource limitations of Uganda's MOH, it is
impressive that they're still using the system I implemented and you can
still access it: http://hexm.de/40 (expands to
http://library.health.go.ug/ktree/browse.php?fFolderId=1&sort_on=ktcore.columns.creationdate&sort_order=desc).

With my more recent involvement with Wikimedia, I think that MediaWiki
could fill the need with more flexibility.

In any case, I'd like to offer my help and provide any support that I
can for this.

Mark.


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